November 4, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Lincoln
Lincolnite Tim Siedell, a.k.a. @badbanana on Twitter, has yet to ink a television deal to turn his tweets into a script for William Shatner (see: "$h*! My Dad Says"). Soon enough, however, his tweets will be appearing in ink with the release of his first book, "Marching Bands Are Just Homeless Orchestras, Half-Empty Thoughts, Volume 1."
"I've been approached by a lot of different people about a book, but none of the ideas felt quite right," Siedell wrote in an email interview.
"I wanted something that would appeal to my fans, who may have read some of these quips when I first posted them on Twitter. But I also wanted something that would appeal to someone who would never in a million years go to the site." After a short introduction by Siedell, the book, 80 pages in all, is essentially a hand-picked collection… read more